Re: F43 Change Proposal: Hardlink identical files in packages by default (self-contained)

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On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 8:20 AM Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Once upon a time, Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
> > On Sat, Jul 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM Pavel Raiskup <praiskup@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I'd rather we show extra care towards Fedora developers who are still
> > > using Fedora, if there are any.  If we make Fedora development overly
> > > complicated compared to working in a completely different environment or
> > > distro, people may migrate (I'd argue that's not good for Fedora).
> > >
> >
> > You have thousands or tens of thousands of hardlinked files in /usr today.
> > See:
> > find /usr -links +1 -type f
>
> Not that I disagree with you... but all files have 1 link (themselves),
> so that doesn't do what you thought it does.  You mean "+2", not "+1".

The only real problem with hardlinks is that you can't partition them
out across volumes. And some filesystems aren't hardlink-safe.

I'm sure the proposers plan to ensure all the valid storage
configurations supported by Anaconda can handle this.

Personally, I would have used symlinks instead of hardlinks, since
they are more obvious and more compatible across different storage
configurations.



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